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Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Swatting Case, Faces 20+ Years in Prison Krebs on Security

Tyler Barriss, 25, went by the nickname SWAuTistic on Twitter, and reveled in perpetrating swatting attacks. These dangerous hoaxes involve making false claims to emergency responders about phony hostage situations or bomb threats, with the intention of prompting a heavily-armed police response to the location of the claimed incident. Barriss admitted setting that fatal swatting attack in motion after getting in the middle of a dispute between two Call of Duty gamers, 18-year-old Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill.”]

Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/calif-man-pleads-guilty-in-fatal-swatting-case-faces-20-years-in-prison/

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